This is indeed a sad day. How is it that all of a sudden there is money and interest by the boro president in the Cornell Farm house and this just goes by the wayside. A true piece of the Queens original landscape with a landmark worthy structure. It just goes to prove some areas are redlined to destroy and develop and others are set aside to preserve. Unfortunately, the landmark law is not fair to all.

Not one - not one - politician showed up. The bell has "mysteriously" disappeared. The countdown has begun: Friday the whole structure is coming down. See it while you can; bring the kids. Another vestige of Queens' history will only exist in old photographs. Bye-bye.

That's one of the Sano "auction special" crew busses. They weaken the structure with maul axes ripping out copper , brass and stuff......Make sure Asbestose, and lead paint chips "disappear" before the bulldozer comes.

It takes no skill, just smash and pickup.You you can also find these buses outside 7-11's and all round Roosevelt Ave jackson heights round 7AM.

Here is the inside story. Gallgher begged his developer friends to rip it down ASAP so the issue of moving it would go away. He made these calls from someone else's phone so they couldn't be FIOLed. He panicked when it looked like there was actually a use for the million dollars he had fabricated, so he thought the best way to make the issue go away fast.

Dennis Gallgher is innocent of the rape charge, but make no mistake about it, he pushed HARD for this demolition.

Just look what Dennis and his buddies have published on their hate blog about the prervationists:

"Their refusal to work with elected officials and city agencies has long sealed the fate of the crumbling church."

"More disturbing is that they don't give a damn about the community all they care about is publicity and attacking everyone who disagrees with their narrow-minded agenda.."

So, ladies and gentlemen, heed the warning from the clubhouse: Cooperate with the city and your councilmemebers OR ELSE. THEY are the ones who will know what is best for the community and THEY will decide the future of our neighborhoods. Not the civic assosciations, not the preservationsits, not the people.

These citizens are to do the bidding of the clubhouse, They are to make the clubhouse look good, or they will be attacked, villified and destroyed.

It is time for a political revolution. We will throw these assholes to the curb and elect people who actually give a shit about community, not those who seek money, power and prestiege

Yes, you stupid preservationists - learn your lesson. You have to join your political rapists in compromising the community.

Real leaders fight for what is right, they don't compromise with isreali soldiers who are here to rape our community and shit on working class americans. But any parasite can hire the Parkside group, they get their way with city hall and political whores like dennis gallagher.

Let this horrible day be the turning point. Never let them get another piece of Queens history. There comes a day when we graduate junior high, and the bullies are suddenly gone from our lives. Stick it out: the grown-ups will eventually prevail. -Joseph Ditta

I guess the clubhouse mentality of the preservationist didnt help either. I tried to be involved with this cause but was exlcuded from doing so because my political affiliation was different from most in the clubhouse.

HA HA HA The developer had been willing to save the church and build around it but now you NIMBYS get nothing for being greedy.I will laugh every time I drive by and see the new transfer terminal or whatever industrial use goes in there to poison your lives. Before you say I work for the developer or other BS I am just a citizen sick of your types.

The developer never had any plans of saving the church. He left it wide open, and allowed it to fall into disrepair over the course of 2 years which is not something you do if you plan to restore a building. As for your schadenfreude, you should be aware that city planning was about to certify the developer's zoning change, but when they asked him for specifics on how he planned to save the building, he pulled the application, citing the downturn in the housing market.

Maybe Dennis Gallager can come on this blog and tell us about the meetings he facilitated between the developer and the civic group. I'd be curious to see what compromise was presented to them and rejected.

Dennis Gallagher will not be coming on this blog to say anything of the sort because he never set up a meeting between JPCA and the developer. Tony Avella met with the developer's attorney back in 2006 and said had no intentions of negotiating. Gallagher met with Bill Driscoll, Lee Principe and the developer in a closed door meeting at his office. Principe suggested a land swap and had the other parties interested in the idea. Gallagher put a kibosh on it, saying that it wouldn't work and Principe was appalled. Then Gallagher and the developer met with Vinny Arcuri, Chairman of CB5, behind closed doors. Arcuri is from Glendale. No one from Maspeth ever saw the plan or was approached about it. The Daily News reported that Gallagher pressed City Planning to certify the zoning application and they were about to do it when the owner suddenly withdrew it. Gallagher will try to put his spin on it, that it was our fault that there was no compromise, but we were never invited to the table and were intentionally kept out of the loop.

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